Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877-1954 (American Presbyterian clergyman)

Auburn file, 1919-1927

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/2

Scope and Contents

class registers, letters, calendars, notes, press cuttings, and related material

Dates: 1919-1927

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Correspondence with Henry Sloane Coffin, 1940-52, 1940-1952

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/10

Scope and Contents

Letters received from Henry Sloane Coffin, with an enclosed letter from Hugh Martin and copies of John Baillie's reply to Coffin.

Dates: 1940-1952

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: 1944, 1944

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/17

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, Henry Sloane Coffin, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), Violet Markham, John H Duncan, George Freeland Barbour and Cyril Forster Garbett (the Archbishop of York). Subjects include John Baillie's BBC broadcasts and Church of Scotland and YMCA matters.

Dates: 1944

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: 1957, 1933-1957

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/42

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from William Roxburgh Forrester and some earlier ( 1939-1953) letters from Henry Sloane Coffin. Also correspondence with Anderson & Nairn, stockbrokers and Shepherd & Wedderburn WS, solicitors, regarding investments and the estate of Donald Macpherson Baillie.

Dates: 1933-1957

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: late 1947, 1947

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/27

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, Bertram Christian, Henry Pitney Van Dusen and Henry Sloane Coffin. Also responses to John Baillie's tribute to Thomas Cockburn in The Scotsman and material relating to the International Missionary Council and to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth (now Elizabeth II).

Dates: 1947

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: winter 1942-1943 file, 1942-1943

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/14

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his brother Donald Macpherson Baille, Alexander Martin, Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry Sloane Coffin, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and the Duke of Montrose. Much of the correspondence relates to John Baillie's appointment as Moderator Designate of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Dates: 1942-1943